Motivational Quotes

Evil

I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

- Curie, Madame Marie

Best Quotes about Evil

1.

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.-

Carlin, George

2.

By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome

Proverb

3.

All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.

Carlyle, Thomas

4.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

5.

To do no evil is good, to intend none better.

Claudius

6.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

7.

Before man is life and death, good and evil; that which he shall choose shall be given him. [Ecclesiasticus]

Bible

8.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

Lerner, Max

9.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

Mae West

10.

The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things -- the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

Johnson, Samuel

11.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Gandhi, Mahatma

12.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.

Pascal, Blaise

13.

What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.

Milton, John

14.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Aurelius, Marcus

15.

Of two evils, it is always best to vote for the least hypocritical.

Proverb, American

16.

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

Evelyn Underhill

17.

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

Maugham, W. Somerset

18.

Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from their house.

Bible

19.

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

Maistre, Joseph De

20.

The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

21.

Those that are evil have not only the good against them, but also the bad.

Bischer

22.

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

Chapman, Maria Weston

23.

To rid ourselves of our shadows -- who we are -- we must step into either total light or total darkness. Goodness and evil.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

24.

The face of evil is always the face of total need.

Burroughs, William S.

25.

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

Homer

26.

My mother's obsession with the good scissors always scared me a bit. It implied that somewhere in the house there lurked: the evil scissors.

Martin, Tony

27.

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

Lawrence, D. H.

28.

The end excuses any evil.

Sophocles

29.

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.

Wollstonecraft, Mary

30.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Auden, W. H.

31.

I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.

Raine, Kathleen

32.

Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.

Horton, Doug

33.

Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.

Weil, Simone

34.

Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

Butterworth, Eric

35.

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

36.

But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.

Mcgoohan, Patrick

37.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, than humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Curie, Madame Marie

38.

What is worse than evil? The inability to bear it.

Weber, C. J.

39.

I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

Euripides

40.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.